Sentences with phrase «by a narrow margin in»

The corruption probe is thus occurring within the context of widening dissatisfaction with Ms Rousseff, especially after her victory by a narrow margin in the second round of the 2014 election.

This is the third time Espaillat will vie for the congressional seat after losing to Rangel by narrow margins in 2012 and 2014.

40th District (Queens): We interviewed Elizabeth Crowley, who is unopposed in the primary and is running against the newly minted Republican incumbent, to whom she lost by a narrow margin in the recent special election.

The democrats lost the election by a narrow margin in the electoral while winning big in the popular vote.

The Republicans had held the majority of seats in the state Senate since 1965, then lost it by a narrow margin in 2008.

Packing and cracking result in some telltale signs of interference: the opposition party tends to win by a landslide in packed districts, but lose by a narrow margin in cracked ones.

The Toyota is better, in my opinion — but by a narrower margin in the RAV4 Sport 4x4 that I drove, because it has a firmer suspension than the other trim levels.

However, although the overall result is tolerably clear (albeit by a narrow margin in Edwards) the problem is that the reasoning varies within the majority.

The Mate 10 Pro edged out the Snapdragon 835 in the Note8 by narrow margins in both categories.

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The Iowa Democratic Party is standing by the results of the Iowa caucuses in which Hillary Clinton apparently defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders by the narrowest of margins, The Des Moines Register reported.

Many of our significant distributors operate on narrow margins and have been negatively affected by business pressures in the past.

But when NDP members decided by a narrow margin to show Thomas Mulcair the door, they ended up trading a leader who was considered prime ministerial by a significant number of voters for one who is not — or at least who may not be in time for next year's federal vote.

The sharp year - over-year decline in Sanmina's non-GAAP EPS was caused by a narrower non-GAAP operating margin of 3.1 %, compared to 4.2 % in the year - ago quarter.

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

The Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in the election, while the Democratic Party of President Obama held on to the Senate by a narrow margin.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

It should be mentioned that the 2008 General Conference sustained United Methodist membership in RCRC by a margin of only 32 votes out of a total of 800 cast; this is the narrowest vote, to date, on United Methodist membership in RCRC.)

Each of these matters was decided by margins that might be comfortable in politics but were disturbingly narrow when matters of the church's faith and order were at issue.

American Nathan Adrian won the men's 100m freestyle in the narrowest of margins, edging the favorite by just 0.01 seconds.

What it provided was a situation in which Pittsburgh could win the formula - off by intentionally playing for a loss and kicking a field goal to narrow Cincinnati's margin of victory instead of going for a touchdown that would win the game.

In the pool, Martin Schweizer turned up the heat to earn a second silver medal of the championships with a time of 1:04.10 s, again missing gold by the narrowest of margins.

It may well have felt like Deja Vu to the Arsenal and Germany international star Mesut Ozil at Euro 2016 yesterday, because despite the attacking midfielder producing an awesome and bewildering display of passing and creative football that had Northern Ireland chasing shadows in France, his national side Germany could only manage to win by the narrowest of margins.

MVVC 18 Red holds a 12 - point lead in the 18 / 17s standings, MVVC 16 Red leads the 16/15's by the narrowest of margins and MVVC 14 Red holds an 8 - point lead in the 14s Division.

Yarnold continued to push for the Sochi win though and took it by the narrowest of margins, denying home favourite Maria Orlova by 0.04 seconds while Germany's Anja Huber Selbach took bronze in her last World Cup race.

They are a price of 6/1 at bet365 to win by a one goal margin in this with Chelsea at 11/4 to take the narrow win.

Carrying on from the narrow escape in 2011 when new Swansea manager Michael Laudrup managed to keep the club in the Primera Liga by the smallest of margins, Mallorca seemed to have ridden their luck too far in the early stages of the next season.

Despite defeating Bangladesh, India and West Indies in their opening three matches, England needed to triumph over Pakistan, or lose by a narrow margin, to guarantee their progress.

Mourinho then introduced his two most prized assets, in the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba into the game and United were pressing even further for a goal and they came close on a few more occasions as Ander Herrera and Ibrahimovic missed their targets by narrow margins.

And in CA - 11 and KY - 06 Republicans are behind by the narrowest of margins,» Boehner wrote.

In the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margiIn the wake of an appellate court decision, Spa City's charter change advocates are once again trying to get their hands on electronic images of ballots cast in November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margiin November's charter referendum that was defeated by a narrow 10 - vote margin.

He took over the leadership of the Welsh Conservatives after devolution had been passed by the narrowest of margins (50.3 % to 49.7 %) in the 1997 referendum.

The group won approval of a statewide initiative amendment in a state constitutional convention in 1986, but voters, probably not comprehending its meaning due to a lack of publicity on the issue, rejected it by a narrow margin.

Trump carried the 22nd District by double digits, but Tenney won her first term by a narrower 6 - point margin in a race with a third party candidate.

In 1997, the vote to establish the National Assembly was won by such a narrow margin.

Espaillat, who lost by narrow margins to Rangel in two past primaries, served in the Assembly before becoming Senator and is seeking to make history as the first member of Congress of Dominican heritage.

Both voted for Long Island state Senator John Flanagan in 2015, helping him secure the position of majority leader by a narrow margin over John DeFrancisco from Syracuse.

In the years which have passed Scotland and Wales have both elected nationalist parties into power, albeit by a narrow margin.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party, the Working Families Party, that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for the party's endorsement in the fall elections.

The Senate leadership coalition holds power by a narrow margin, and Governor Cuomo has already promised the minor party the Working Families Party that he would work to help Democrats regain control of the Senate, in exchange for that party's endorsement in the fall elections.

If the party's support levels nationally were to even lower than the 6.6 % level won in the general election, then the party would be losing even more seats — especially given the narrow margins that Labour candidates (such as Willie Penrose) won seats by in that election.

Since the margin is so narrow, this race will be determined by absentee ballots in the coming days and weeks!

MacIsaac had been defeated in last November's general election by a narrow six - vote margin in his race against incumbent county legislator Mary Wawro.

The poll found voters in New York City by a margin of 62 percent to 36 percent oppose the tax, with even a narrow majority in Manhattan — 50 percent to 49 percent — also opposing it.

In Texas, Kennedy defeated Nixon by a narrow 51 to 49 % margin, or 46,000 votes.

A Republican official told CNN that President Trump, who is raising money with GOP donors in Beverly Hills, has been asking for updates throughout the evening and is pleasantly surprised by the narrow margin.

The NYCO measure was approved by voters statewide 53 - 47 percent — a vote that Protect the Adirondacks noted was the narrowest margin in a half - century on a question involving the forest preserve.

Nigel Farage warns today he would fight for a second referendum on Britain in Europe if the remain campaign won by a narrow margin next month.

Republicans, who are in charge of the chamber by a narrow margin, would pit six incumbent minority party Democrats against one another in three districts.

The picture from the BESIP changed very little in May following the European Parliament Elections which saw the SNP emerge as the largest party but by a narrow margin over Labour of 29 % to 25 %, and less than in the corresponding elections of 2009.

Yorktown Republican Town Supervisor Michael Grace lost last November; fellow Republicans Tony Colavita and Ron Belmont were re-elected in Eastchester and Harrison, but by narrower margins than in the past.